pt. I: Character and style: 1888-1922. Ghostly selves ; "The pathology of rhetoric" ; "I would meet you upon this honestly": "Gerontion" ; "The poet's inner world of nightmare" ; "Unknown terror and mystery": The waste land --
pt. II: "A new form and style": 1923-34. New life: The hollow men ; "Desire and control" ; "Explaining to himself": Ash Wednesday ; "Beyond music" --
pt. III: "Costing not less than everything". "Our first world": Burnt Norton ; "A new and shocking valuation": Four quartets.